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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1931
Page
4
Opinion warns that Raleigh’s equalization board may cap local supplements to state school costs. It questions funding methods for the six month term, urging caution, slow action, and broader expert input before restricting local budgets or raising costs.
The Democratic Party plans a nationwide campaign to raise 1.5 million dollars. A key goal is to express an idea championed by the opposition in public messaging and fundraising efforts.
The piece debates John J. Raskob financing the Democratic Party, suggesting scrutiny of his motives as a rich benefactor, while noting his large open loans to back the party. It contrasts with GOP donations, flags potential political leverage, and considers economic mood driving renewed fundraising.
More than 100 county and city officials met in Raleigh at the governor’s call to plan a winter relief program for unemployment. Director Charles M. Johnson urged private subscriptions to stretch funding while officials recognize a temporary dole in state affairs and warn against higher local taxes from federal relief.
The News and Observer, urging a special cotton tobacco relief session, questions Duke Power official Norman A. Cocke’s influence on state power policy and cautions about pressuring the governor. The piece argues whether industry voices should steer tax and power legislation and address proposed bills.
Bruce Catton argues that during hard times young men under 30 increasingly seek work away from home, becoming modern pioneers in a changing America. He cites past westward migration and warns frontier spirit now drives men to breadlines and urban gigs, while police exploit anti gun laws against gangsters. He also notes Seabury committee findings hint at corrupt city officials in New York, inviting public scrutiny and impact on national perceptions.
A survey highlights hazards of ladder climbing and sliding down drain pipes. It notes these actions pose safety risks and should be avoided. A Chicago political event aims to begin with a strong, attention grabbing opening.
The article notes that with all Al Capone aliases, his attorney may argue the crime was committed by two other men, suggesting a potential split of responsibility and implicating different suspects in the case.
A chemist says all liquor today is bum amid rising fatigue with cocktails. The public grows tired of liquor while the United States eyeing sea supremacy asserts it has the lead in rum fleets.
A university professor asserts that American college students are indifferent to politics. He compares this to Chinese students reacting to their foreign minister's alleged administrative negligence, suggesting politicians should be relieved that U S students know little politics.
Washington reports on a daily round table in the senate wing where insurgents and progressives meet for lunch. Led by George Norris, the group includes Hiram Johnson, Gerald Nye, and Robert La Follette, with Borah a former participant. The closed circle discusses strategy, but no official records exist.
Interdenominational Colored Ministerial Union of this city, meeting after summer recess, urged rigid economy due to unemployment and wage reductions. The group called on colored residents to support public aid for the needy this winter. Rev. H. R. Walden presides, Rev. J. A. Melton is secretary, and Rev. H. L. Ashe is reporter.
Mrs. Minnie Alison Welch, president of the Chattanooga chapter, told the State W C T U convention in Memphis that women should be elected to public office where possible and that men who respect the law must be chosen otherwise. She criticized recent legislative conduct as a disgrace to manhood and citizenship, noting some legislators drank while others were true to their oaths.
A conditional accord among the Farm Board American Cotton Cooperative Association and southern banks aims to keep about seven million bales of cotton from sale for at least one year. The deal links new credits and extensions, with bank loans on 3.5 million bales and extensions of 2 million bales until July 1932, contingent on price supports and state action.
CULLOWHEE Oct 13 Special The Fast Carolina club at Western Carolina Teachers College elected officers for the new year Miss Mildred Martin of Raleigh is president Joe White of Cornelius is vice president and Miss Betty Walker of Castella is secretary and treasurer Miss Emma Thompson of Goldsboro is retiring president of the club
Evanston Illinois October 14 A Northwestern University alumna Dorothy Hadley 26 has married Prince Malaku Bayeu nephew of Abyssinian King Haile Selassie I The couple met in Washington where Miss Hadley was a registrar at Howard University They eloped to Fairfax Virginia and were married The prince is a Howard medical student and the royal pair live near the campus
In Anderson South Carolina on October 14 AP reports a statement by a man who aims to profit from burial ads. He planned a week seven burial with a tombstone inscription advertising space to be read at the courthouse funeral. Prices were reasonable and subscribers joined before the strange stunt vanished.
Raleigh Oct 14 North Carolina Lieutenant Governor R T Fountain candidate for governor urged revision of state tax laws to add revenue flexibility as wealth shifts from real estate to personal property He said the fairest tax is income tax opposes sales tax and would favor a luxury tax if needed He ridiculed the Brookings report used by Governor Gardner in 1931 session.
An inventor at a English seaport harnesses tidal energy by storing seawater in tanks and using its fall to drive a turbine. The system generates between 30 and 259 horsepower, exploiting tide level changes that can reach up to 30 feet.
Carolina briefs report Governor Gardner will formally tender 70 000 acres to the federal government on November 1 for inclusion in the Great Smoky Mountain national park. Also, L B Ayers 40 formerly of Atlanta died in a county hospital from alcoholic poisoning per coroner W W Harvey. Velva Monteith was struck by an automobile driven by I B Hill of Banlo, held on $100 bond for assault with a deadly weapon, and is hospitalized for injuries.
Dr. J S Hood files a $50,000 suit in Gastonia North Carolina against Gurney P Hood head of the state banking department John Mitchell former chief state bank examiner and the defunct Commercial Bank and Trust Company over a fall down an elevator shaft in the bank building last year.
Judge I. M. Meekins convened federal court in New Bern and about 70 cases were on the docket this week.
Mount Airy North Carolina Thaddeus Daber Jr sustains serious burns after pouring gasoline on a fire he believed was water. He was rushed to a local hospital for treatment and remains under observation as doctors assess injuries.
Arrest of Linwood Helms at his Kannapolis home closes the jail escape case. Authorities tracked the three fugitives after the breakout last week, ending a broad search across the area. Helms was taken into custody without incident and faces new charges.
Sherman Hutchinson was fatally injured when the open car door struck a telephone pole and crushed his skull. His wife and two children were injured when the car wrecked.
In Lexington North Carolina Mervin R Brown a 44 year old dairyman lies in a stupor in a local hospital two weeks after being struck by an auto doctors say his condition is critical and he remains unconscious.
Infirmities of age cause the death of Civil War veteran Jesse R. Moore, 88, who will be buried here today in Kinston North Carolina.
Richmond Va Oct 14 Plans for North and South Carolina to join President Hoover’s credit extension program moved forward as state bankers were named organizers. Robert M Haynes of Winston-Salem Wachovia Bank and Trust Co and F F Beattie of Greenville D C First National Bank were appointed in their states.
Citizens of Denmark drank 474 990 gallons of alcohol last year compared with 525 000 gallons the year before. The figures show a decline in total alcohol consumption year over year.
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